On 6 Apr 1999, Martin Bialasinski responded very promptly: > >> "vp" == v polasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > vp> I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now > vp> when I run it as a "regular" user, xisp gives me an error message: > > vp> "/usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege". > > Do you have the xisp package from 2.1, or do you use an older version?
dpkg -l xisp tells me that I have version 2.5p4-1 > If you are using an older version (I suspect so), then upgrade. pppd > 2.3.5 (as included in slink) got stricter about the allowed usage of > parameters for unprivileged users. My version of pppd came from the deb version 2.3.5-2 of ppp. I presume that this is the most recent version. However, I should add that I configured ppp for my current isp provider about 3 months ago under an older version of pppd which came with hamm. I never had any problems with pppd before or after the upgrade. > If I am wrong with my guess, please run > find /etc/ppp -type f | xargs grep "name " > as root, so that I can see where this parameter comes from. This output is somewhat long to post, so here is a list of only the files that came up: /etc/ppp/peers/xisp_ttyS3 /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/xisp /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/xisp /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/ip-up /etc/ppp/ip-down It looks that either /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/xisp or /etc/ppp/options may have something relevant. Thanks for any further help, Vaclav Polasek
